i know the united nations ambassador susan rice did not believe this was a terrorist attack early on. i did hear the secretary of state say we had to figure out what was going on first before we could make any decisions on what to do about it. i do know that folks in the intelligence and law enforcement community were talking months before. several reports came up. the last in august saying this is a problem. we know al-qaeda is out here. we know what they are trying to do. they are gathering weapons and people and they knew that they could not find annis who was the man in libya dating back to the days before 9-11. so they knew something was brewing. what they did about it will be interesting in the end. >> did al-qaeda very smartly -- for them, use what was going on with the unrest and everything and the reaction to that film and all that kind of thing, did they use that as an opportunity to mask their mission and go in. >> absolutely. that's what al-qaeda does. they look for opportunities and certainly now considering the weakness of the organization having lost many of its top ope